At a time in the United States when the tech sector outpaces the overall growth of the employment market, CODE asks the important question: Where are all the women?
Direction
Hauser lets the data speak, then makes it scream.
Writing
Dismantles 'not enough women apply' excuse by 15 minutes in.
Director
Robin Hauser
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The doc highlights that computer programming was originally considered 'women's work' — akin to typing — until the 1960s when professionalization and prestige drove men to dominate the field.
Robin Hauser made this after her own daughter dropped computer science, realizing the problem wasn't interest but environment. The personal stake shows in every frame.
US
